AVCaptureSession + vImageBoxConvolve_ARGB8888 = FUN;

Hey kids, just a small update today. Here’s what I’ve been playing with:

It’s an iPhone app for devices running iOS 5+ that takes video frames from the front camera and performs a vImageBoxConvolve twice to simulate a gaussian blur. It does this in realtime (well, ~15fps) and the slider sets the blur radius. The code to do this is remarkably small: